'Golden bullet needed': Staff shortages, COVID cases for young people plague SC hospitals greenvilleonline.com/story/news/202…

South Carolina just reported its third highest single-day COVID-19 case count since the pandemic began. trib.al/b4ZYvah

Austin Judge blocks Texas gov. Abbott’s mask mandate ban because he stepped out of his constitutional authority — Covid "could result in more extreme measures such as the school closures that have already begun in several Texas school districts" thedailybeast.com/judge-blocks-g…

Three more school districts announce closures. The latest on COVID in Kentuckiana schools courier-journal.com/story/news/loc…

Covid rampant in South Carolina schools. Thousands out home in quarantine. Simply put, we have failed to protect our children. postandcourier.com/news/dd2-repor…

The numbers don’t lie. After a brief reprieve this spring, the pandemic is nearly as bad as it’s ever been in South Carolina trib.al/3YgThDs

The United States is now reporting 1,329 new coronavirus deaths per day, the highest seven-day average since March 15, according to data from CNN and Johns Hopkins University.

There's a saying: your right to swing your fist ends at my nose. Everyone has a responsibility to avoid spreading Covid, including by masking up indoors and getting vaccinated.

Woodford County remains the only Kentucky county not in the red on Tuesday’s COVID-19 incidence rate map. #WKYT

The death and destruction from COVID19 will haunt our great state of Texas for many years. We’re at 57,000 deaths to date and ⁦Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)⁩ projections of another 10,000 Texans lost by Dec 1. Not to mention the thousands upon thousands with longCovid thehill.com/homenews/state…

Now that the #CaldorFire is in the #Tahoe basin, what comes next? I wrote about why this fire is burning so intensely (spoiler: the climate crisis and a century of fire suppression) and how the basin’s topography will impact it moving forward. sfgate.com/renotahoe/arti…

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas’ radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect. Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.

Connally ISD in Central Texas closed its schools until after the Labor Day holiday Tuesday after two teachers died last week of COVID-19. dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/08/31/tex…

The district in Brazoria County expanded its COVID-related closures from two to now nine. abc13.com/10991015/?ex_c…

KP Kauffman, which operates 1,200 low-producing oil and gas wells in Colorado, fined $1.6 million by state regulators for a string of violations from improperly storing waste to failing to report and address spills. #ClimateJustice buff.ly/3mPy6c4

What the hell is this? Are they even paying attention?? Do they realize half the country is on fire and the other half is flooding?? reuters.com/business/energ…

While Texas politicians seem to be perfectly fine with #DeltaVariant's reproductive rights ... not so much for Texas women. x.com/TexasDSHS/stat… stats via Texas DSHS | #Texas #SB8 #WomensRights

In the span of one week the Supreme Court forced 11 million households to face eviction and effectively overturned Roe v. Wade in the middle of the night. This is what far-right extremism looks like. We need to expand the court.